I have a broken right hinge on a HP Pavilion DV6000.
I need to know where and how to order the correct parts for replacements.
You will find step-by-step disassembly instructions and needed part numbers in the official maintenance and service guide for HP Pavilion dv6000 notebooks. It’s a 3.28MB pdf file and might take some time to download.
I have HP laptop and it keeps crashing for no apparent reason. The fan always get going loud and fast then it crashes just siting on a desk. I figure it has to do with over heating but it doesn’t seem to be hot on the bottom. it will not restart without letting it sit for a while.
Your description does sound like a heat related problem. Most likely the laptop crashes because the heat sink is clogged with dust and the CPU overheats.
My dog knocked my laptop off the table when it was on now the laptop starts but no image appears on the screen. The light comes on when I press on the power button and the fan starts working, but the screen remains dark. I tested laptop with an external monitor and couldn’t get it to work. The external monitor worked before just fine.
Take a look in the memory compartment. It’s likely that one or both memory modules got dislocated from their slots.
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My Toshiba Satellite’s LCD stopped working. I tested by attaching an external monitor to it and the display works. I couldn’t figure out if it was the back light, LCD, or inverter. I’ve shinned a flashlight on the LCD and cannot see anything. Though when I dim the lights, I see the LCD lite up. Does anyone have any ideas?
Your laptop works with an external monitor and that means the motherboard and video card work properly.
It’s possible that the video cable got disconnected from the motherboard. I’ve seen it happening before a few times in some Toshiba Satellites models.
One of my visitors was experiencing a problem with the laptop screen brightness after the screen replacement. Here’s how he fixed the problem.
I just replaced the lcd on my Dell C610 with one I bought from a reputable seller on eBay. Everything went well, but when I fired it up I found the display much dimmer than it was before. Checking part numbers, I came up with my old Hitachi TX36D98VC1CAC and the new part, TX36D98VC1CAE.
Here are some troubleshooting steps I went through:
1. Swapped inverters, but nothing improved.
2. I’ve got the keyboard brightness cranked all the way up. Didn’t help.
3. I’ve got the brightness in the BIOS cranked all the way up. Didn’t help.
4. Updated BIOS to the latest version. Didn’t help.
Finally, reinstalled the video driver and it fixed the problem. The new screen is as bright as before!
My laptop will not boot normally. Comes on for a few seconds showing the Windows XP screen then freezes. It will boot in safe mode (most of the time).
I ran virus scans, no problems there. I tried restoring to a time before the problem (which did not help). I did get a “conflict error” once before it froze up, but no error code. It did boot normally for a while after problem first occurred.
Any ideas?
It’s hard to tell if your problem is software or hardware related without running some diagnostic tests.
In many cases Windows freezes like that because of memory failure. You can download Memtest86+ and run it on your laptop. If memory fails test, replace it with a new module. If memory passes test, move to the next step.
My Dell laptop has been giving me these strange horizontal and angular lines and dots on my screen with different characters on the text as well. Tried reloading fresh windows and drivers but still the same.
If reinstalling the operating system doesn’t help, it’s definitely a hardware related failure.
First of all, test your laptop with video output on the external monitor.
If both, the external monitor and laptop screen show exactly the same problem, this is the video card related failure. In most laptops the video card is integrated into the motherboard, it means the entire motherboard has to be replaced.
My laptop just died as I came back from school. I took the battery out and had it unplugged. I waited a minute or so, in this time I pressed the power button to drain whatever energy was left in the circuitry and after I just flipped it back over and placed the battery back in. As i tried to turn it on, the green light came on but only for a second and turned off again.
I think you have a failed power adapter. Apparently, the power adapter died while you were using the laptop. The laptop worked until the battery had charge and finally shut off.
I just changed out my hard drive on my Panasonic CF-Y2. I reloaded windows XP and can see all of the files on my hard drive when I use a Linux CD Rom operating disk, so I know the drive works, but I cannot boot XP from my hard drive. I continue to get the dreaded PXE-E61 “media test failure” message at start-up.
Most likely it happens because the hard drive is not set as the first boot device in the BIOS and the laptop is trying to boot from LAN. That’s why you are getting “media test failure” message.
I hear music come out of the laptop speakers but it sounds really bad. I tried to use my headphones but it still sounds bad.
It’s either a software related problem or the laptop sound card is bad.
First of all, try reinstalling the audio driver. If it doesn’t help, back up all personal data and reisntall the operating system from the recovery disc or installation CD. Install missing device drivers if needed and test the laptop again.
